Consultants make leadership feel good or look good, reduce cognitive load, provide cover for decisions, many other things along those lines, none of which are a

Consultants make leadership feel good or look good, reduce cognitive load, provide cover for decisions, many other things along those lines, none of which are about a deck, which is incidental. They have to, as a firm, have the appearance of being vaunted and smart, otherwise it doesn't work, so the institutional credibility, regardless of whether one believes objectively in its merit, is important. I'm not saying it's good or bad, but the sooner you realize that the problems consultants are solving are almost certainly not the "technical" problem in front of them, the sooner you understand the industry